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Overview

Velayat-e Faqih, an iron-hard Constitution and ideology, authored by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and upon which the Islamic Republic of Iran was founded following the Revolution of 1979, is rooted in Shia Islam.  It justifies the rule of the clergy over the state with all key decisions subject to approval by the Val-e Faqih or the Guardian Islamic Jurist in the person of the Supreme Leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The original concept of Velayat-e Faqih was a good mandate intended to apply only to the protection of a small, vulnerable section of the population such as widows, orphans and the disabled.  The term was popular until it was hijacked by Ayatollah Khomeini and twisted out of all recognition into a creed that would effectively vest absolute power in a Supreme Leader.  

The reconstructed/ reconstituted Velayat-e Faqih would allow Khomeini to impose Sharia (divine) law and permit a medieval regime that deprived its people of human rights and brutally suppressed any form of dissent.

The unbending nature of Constitution and ideology written into this creed means that as leaders and Guardian Council members grow old and die, they are replaced, as far as possible, by new individuals who must observe Velayat-e Faqih, and as far as possible, are clones of the preceding mullahs.

Velayat-e Faqih can never be changed (except it was. once, by its author, 10 years after the 1979 Revolution, in order to further erase women from public life).

Ruhollah Khomeini’s intention was not only to apply this fundamentalist ideology to Iran but also to export it across the whole Islamic world, where versions of it exist in Islamist extremist centres.  That remains the case today with Ayatollah Khamenei in power.

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